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Skriven 2006-06-05 11:57:00 av Robert E Starr JR (2276.babylon5)
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Kurt Ullman wrote:

> In article <1149425183.288120.234030@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
>  "ravend03x" <rkimd3@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Wesley Struebing wrote:
>>
>>>You bet!  There is a real market for it (and Willie Nelson, fwiw, is
>>>in on it...).  It's called biodiesel, and I believe that almost all
>>>diesels will run on it with no tweaking.
>>
>>I think that you need to filter the oil first, and there is a kit that
>>you can purchase that allows you to convert a regular diesel engine to
>>be biodiesel compatible.  My understanding is that many restaurants are
>>actually happy to _give_ you their old frying oils so they don't have
>>to pay a commercial company for its disposal. Though I think biodiesel
>>still has significant emissions compared to the proposed hydrogen
>>fueled car, it is reportedly much better than what is standard right
>>now.
> 
> 
>   There is biodiesel and then there is biodiesel. Use of cooking oil 
> requires some modifications. The use of the other kind of biodiesel 
> (where soy oil or something similar is mixed with "regular diesel fuel", 
> doesn't require. (Cummins Engines is pushing biodiesel and they reside 
> down the road from me, so these discussions keeping showing up in the 
> Indy paper. 
> 
> 
>>I am still keen on pushing for the hydrogen fueled cars... I know I
>>will have to wait approx. 10 years to see it, though.  I am not aware
>>of many environmental problems regarding the production of hydrogen gas
>>to fuel them either, unless someone has more info on the subject?
> 
>      I have heard some rumblings amongst the public safety types 
> (especially the fire/rescue guys) about concerns about how the hydrogen 
> will be handled and what will be the problems in accidents. But that, so 
> far anyway, has been more along the lines of "please keep us in mind 
> when doing the engineering" than any large concerns.
> 
Nope, not going to happen.  Hydrogen isn't a good fuel, except for PR 
purposes.  It has 20 years down the road for the last 50 years...

Really.  It is too light.  There is more hydrogen in a gallon of 
gasoline than in an equivalent volume of H2, unless it is compressed to 
Jupiterian proportions, when it would make a great bomb!  Plus, we don't 
have any hydrogen wells, so it is either extracted from natural gas, 
which wastes the fuel value of the carbon there, or created with 
electrolysis, which as one pundit has put it, is the same as exchanged 
dollars for pesos... 8-)

Charlie
                                                                               
                
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